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title: "The day before, on going out for a drive, we had locked our door, a… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "The day before, on going out for a drive, we had locked our door, and the Mac Stabs denied our right to lock any door, or even to keep any door-key. Who acts: day, Mac Stabs. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4, with its dependency tr
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 62

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"The day before, on going out for a drive, we had locked our door, and the Mac Stabs denied our right to lock any door, or even to keep any door-key.

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**Who acts:** day, Mac Stabs · **What happens:** go out, lock, deny, keep · **To what, where:** we, right, door, door key

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, Mac Stabs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:5:62
# text = "The day before, on going out for a drive, we had locked our door, and the Mac Stabs denied our right to lock any door, or even to keep any door-key.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	drive	drive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Stabs	Stab	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	denied	deny	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	lock	lock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	even	even	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
35	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
36	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** *in a quote* | gerund | the day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a drive | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lock** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  | we |  |  | day | our door *obj* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient door=Result |
| 3 | **deny** *in a quote* | past | the Mac Stabs | our right |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent right=Eventuality |
| 4 | **lock** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Mac Stabs *not said here* | any door |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 5 | **keep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Mac Stabs *not said here* | any door key |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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